Stomping Grounds

Overall went 2-3-0, had a rough first round vs a UG monsters list, couldnt beat Genesis Hydra's grabbing some friends...

Next round played vs RW aggro/burn/whatever, and had a grindy 3 games, thankfully I won..

UW Heroic then fell to my 3 zombies. Opp couldnt keep up to 2 waste …

So I went to FNM this week with hope. I ended up going 2-2, losing 0-2 to a mono-red aggro deck after I mulliganed to 5, and 0-2 to a jund monsters deck against which I drew no creature of CMC < 6.

Sideboarding in a bunch of cheap burn spells and poor luck for the opponent allowed me to win 2-1 against a pretty rad mono-red goblin deck. I was able to suppress the mob and ramp enough to get out the fatties.

My other victory was against a BUG control deck that seemed to be put together just for Hornet's Nest and Aetherspouts, but also had Jace, Architect of Thought and Kiora, the Crashing Wave. In game 1 I was able to T2 Domri into a T3 Scuttling Doom Engine with haste. That was pretty much it.

In game 2 I displayed a high level of stupidity by casting …

I took home an unexpected 1-2-1 record today, expecting to go 0-4 OR WORSE.

This deck works well against creature-heavy builds, I played against some sort of Jund monsters thing and lost game 1, but won game 2 because of the slow and steady life gain as well as kill …